Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 1081 - 1100

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Chapter 1081:- Wails of Despair (3)

Almost every single disciple of the Fiery Blaze Clan immediately felt a sense of guilt rise within their heart the moment they saw Jun Xie and they all subconsciously tried to hide their weapons they held in their hands behind their backs, unable to look Jun Xie straight in the eye.

Xiong Ba and Qing Yu raised their heads in astonishment as they turned to look at Jun Xie.

But with that one look, it made their hearts chill by half!

Although they knew Jun Xie had a cold personality, but the gaze he looked at them with had never held any animosity. Though that had never let them feel like they were very close, but it had not made them feel Jun Xie to be distant or callous.

But this time!

They could see the intense enmity in Jun Xie's eyes, and the icy chill that made one turn cold.

That gaze, was one they had never seen in the eyes of Jun Xie before.....

At that moment, they knew. The cold personality that Jun Xie truly had, was never like anything he had shown to them before. In that one instant, a feeling of despair immediately crept into the hearts of the two of them. They were almost certain, from the moment Jun Xie stepped into the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall that day, all the harmonious relationship they had with Jun Xie before, had been completely and irrecoverable severed!

"Jun Xie..... You..... You should let me explain." Xiong Ba's voice was trembling as he opened his mouth to speak to Jun Xie.

But Jun Wu Xie turned to glare at him coldly instead, and her gaze then went past Xiong Ba, to look at Qu Wen Hao.

In the instant that Qu Wen Hao saw Jun Xie, his heart jumped, highly startled. According to his calculations, for Jun Xie to discover all that was happening, and to come back to the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, it should have taken at least another hour or two, and he had not once thought that Jun Xie would manage to rush back here so quickly!

That pair of eyes that send chills into people, made the already thoroughly exhausted Qu Wen Hao feel even more drained. If not for Qing Yu holding him up beside him, he really wouldn't be able to even stand.

Jun Wu Xie's gaze fell onto the Spirit Taming Bone Flute in Qu Wen Hao's face, and the icy glint in her eyes flashed at that moment.

"Come here." Jun Wu Xie did not look at Qu Wen Hao or anyone else among them another time but just raised her head, to look at the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit who had been heavily surrounded and attacked, and made to suffer endless panic and hurt.

The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit which had been highly murderous suddenly lost quite a bit of it malicious aura in its eyes immediately upon seeing Jun Wu Xie. It stared warily at the disciples of the Fiery Blaze Clan below before it hunched its feet and leapt, its blood red body suddenly drawing a blood red arc in the air, to land into Jun Wu Xie's arms in a blink, and throughout the entire process, it had not released Lord Meh Meh from its mouth!

Jun Wu Xie caught both the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit and Lord Meh Meh firmly in her arms.

Jun Wu Yao at the side raised an eyebrow and snapped his fingers once. Ye Sha and Ye Mei immediately appeared behind the two of them in an instant.

"Leave them to Ye Sha and Ye Mei first." Jun Wu Yao said, looking at Jun Wu Xie. From deep within that pair of clear and cold eyes, he had been able to detect the rage and murder that she was trying very hard to hold down at that moment.

Jun Wu Xie did not move, as she had felt several wounds on the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit that had split open. The wounds that the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit had sustained before it awoken had not yet fully healed. Although it had awakened, but it's Guardian Grade Spirit Beast state had yet to completely stabilise and it could not be considered to be a fully matured and true Sacrificial Blood Rabbit. Hence, the speed of its healing was relatively slower. It had in order to protect Lord Meh Meh, split up several of the wounds that had not fully healed, and the blood that covered all over its fur, was not all just from the enemy, but some of it had been its own mixed together within!

"Puu." The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit put Lord Meh Meh it held in its mouth within Jun Wu Xie's arms and it raised its tiny head to look anxiously at Jun Wu Xie.

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Chapter 1082:- Wails of Despair (4)

Jun Wu Xie's clear gaze slowly fell upon the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit. Looking into that pair of blood red eyes, she saw great fear and helplessness as the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit continuously used the tip of its nose to nudge Lord Meh Meh deeper into Jun Wu Xie's embrace.

Lord Meh Meh however looked as if it had fallen into a dead faint and did not give the slightest reaction.

Jun Wu Xie did not speak a single word, but the air surrounding her turned to feel extremely strange, which made people not dare to take a single step forward in approach.

Xiong Ba stared at Jun Xie who suddenly felt strangely unfamiliar to him and he subconsciously gulped.

"Jun Xie..... Let me explain..... This matter..... isn't like what you are thinking." When Xiong Ba spoke, he felt his hands began to tremble.

Jun Xie at that moment, made him feel great fear.

"Speak." Jun Wu Xie slowly raised her head, her eyes now replaced with a composed calm, but for some unknown reason, Xiong Ba and all the other people there were feeling more flustered by that.

Jun Xie was obviously looking cold and calm, just like the youth had all this time, but he was however making all of them feel a chill creep right into their bones.

Xiong Ba was struggling to find the words as he opened his mouth, but he did not know what to say at all.

In this matter, no matter how you said it, they were in the wrong.....

Although they had a reason that gave them no choice but to do this, but..... what did all of that have to do with Jun Xie? Jun Xie had initially come to the Thousand Beast City to help them all but what had they done instead? In order to save one of their own people, they chose to sacrifice Jun Xie's Spirit Beast? Even to the extent that, they even reneged on their earlier agreement, betraying that trust and abandoning righteousness.....

The words were at the tip of his tongue, but Xiong Ba found them all stuck around his neck, and he could not make himself say them.

All those words, he could not speak, and did not dare to say.....

At the end of it all, they were the ones who let down Jun Xie.

Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at Xiong Ba, and Jun Wu Yao at her side did not take his eyes off the side of Jun Wu Xie's face at all, seemingly looking like if Jun Wu Xie were to so much as just lift an eyebrow, he would immediately wash the entire Fiery Blaze Clan Hall with blood!

Xiong Ba could not say anything, and Qing Yu was too ashamed to even open his mouth. To the two of them, what they did here was just too despicable for words!

Qu Wen Hao looked at Jun Wu Xie and suddenly walked out from among the crowd of people. Before the eyes of everyone, he fell with a loud thud to his knees before Jun Xie, completely disregarding the excruciating pain in his arm, as he looked pleadingly at Jun Xie.

"Young Master Jun! I know you are someone no ordinary person can compare with. Today's incident, all started from me. I know that I do not deserve to even ask for your forgiveness, but I have no other choice but to still beg you. Can you hand that Spirit Beast of yours to me! Qu Xin Rui..... Qu Xin Rui captured Ling Yue. She threatened me..... to use the Spirit Taming Bone Flute to steal your Spirit Beast from you, and if I do not do as she says, she will kill Ling Yue! Young Master Jun! I am aware that a person as despicable as me, as a person who betrayed your trust and went back on his word is not even qualified to discuss terms with you. But I only have Ling Yue as my only daughter, and she is innocent. I beg you. Hand your Spirit Beast to me and let me save my daughter! As long as Ling Yue is able to return safely, this life of mine will be yours to take or severe as you wish!"

The Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City knelt right before Jun Xie, wailing and pleading.

[He had betrayed Jun Xie's trust and abandoned righteousness. And he had also repaid kindness with deceit not because he was vicious and malevolent, but because the only thing his entire world revolved around under the heavens, his daughter, was being held in the hands of others, and he had had no other choice but to submit to them, forced to commit a deed so dirty that even he found himself to be nauseating!]

[He had only his daughter left. He can give up on everything else. As long as it can bring his daughter back safely, there was nothing he wouldn't be unwilling to do!]

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Chapter 1083:- Severing All Ties (1)

Qu Wen Hao wept as he begged. There was nothing else he could depend on. His face was deathly pale, his eye bloodshot, looking not a single bit as steady and refined as Jun Wu Xie had seen on that day outside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers. Strands of hair around his temple had come loose and hung down loosely, making him look more worn and wretched, his always straightened back now bent over, all for his daughter.

Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the sorry looking figure of Qu Wen Hao, and not a ripple of emotion showed within her eyes.

"I beg you, help me..... As long as you are willing to help, you can have whatever you want..... My own life, everything that I own, I can can hand them all to you." Qu Wen Hao cried out aloud, his hand covering his face.

He knew after all that he had done today, he would never be able to gain the forgiveness of Jun Xie. But for Qu Ling Yue, he could not give up on fighting for this one last sliver of hope.

Qu Wen Hao's crying plea, did not receive a reply from Jun Xie. Qu Wen Hao knelt there in helplessness, in hopeless abandonment.

Xiong Ba clenched up his fists, and his face creased up in a frown. Forlorn sadness and fierce struggle filled his eyes, but he could not make himself speak.

"From now onwards, I sever all ties with the Thousand Beast City, and whether you die or leave, is no concern of mine." Jun Wu Xie said coldly. Her voice had just dropped and she immediately turned to leave while carrying Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit in her arms, unwilling to see anymore of the courtyard that was filled with betrayal.

She might not have ever seen Xiong Ba and the others as her own companions, but even though that was the case, she had still given to them a certain level of trust.

But after today, that had been completely obliterated.

Jun Wu Yao's gaze turned slightly, sweeping a quick glance over the crowd of people from the Fiery Blaze Clan, and he stepped away to follow behind Jun Wu Xie's steps. When he reached her side, he looked at the side of Jun Wu Xie's face with that cold expression and he asked: "Little Xie's personality, is becoming softer and softer?"

If he had not earlier promised Jun Wu Xie that he would not stick his hand into the affairs in the Thousand Beast City, that whole courtyard full of people earlier would all already be dead by now.

Jun Wu Xie replied coldly: "They have nothing to do with me, what's there to talk about?"

The only relationship she had with the Thousand Beast City had only been for them to work together with her and now that Qu Wen Hao had reneged on that agreement, that layer of relationship no longer existed.

Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie, and an eyebrow arched up on his face, but he did not say anything more.

The two of them departed side by side, leaving Qu Wen Hao only their cold and chilly backs to gaze after.

Qu Wen Hao watched Jun Xie's back and in a flustered panic, he could not help but yell: "Young Master Jun! You cannot....."

Jun Wu Xie's steps halted. She did not turn back, but only spoke in a highly icy tone.

"There is nothing here, to tell me I cannot." Upon saying that, she walked away, without stopping in the slightest.

Qu Wen Hao fell forlornly onto the ground, every ounce of his strength drained out of him. But in the next instant, his eyes suddenly exploded with a gaze, looking highly insane and twisted!

He suddenly stood up, and charged right towards Jun Xie!

"Grand Chieftain!" Xiong Ba's heart jumped in shock. He had never thought that Qu Wen Hao had already lost his mind to such an extent, that he would even think of attacking Jun Xie!

In the instant just as Qu Wen Hao was about to get close to Jun Xie, Jun Wu Xie suddenly lifted a leg, and executed a roundhouse kick behind, to send Qu Wen Hao flying away!

And that one kick that had been like a wild gale that passed, showed a trail of glittering blue spirit power energy, that spread as they dissipated in mid air!

Qu Wen Hao cried out as he slammed against the wall, falling limply to the ground in a heap, continuing to groan in pain.

At that moment, the entire Fiery Blaze Clan Hall fell incredibly silent, as everyone stared wide eyed in disbelief, their gazes fixed upon the seemingly still undispersed glowing blue spirit energy.....

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Chapter 1084:-Severing All Ties (2)

[Blue spirit..... How is it possible.....]

The person who had released that blue spirit energy, was actually a thin youth who looked to be fourteen or fifteen. That was just too unbelievable!

Xiong Ba was even more surprised, his gaze in shock as he gaped at Jun Xie. He remembered when they were in the Fire Country's Capital City, Jun Xie had only had powers of the green spirit. But in less than a month since then, the youth had become a blue spirit?

Such speed for spirit power level breakthroughs, was truly unprecedented from ancient times and won't be replicated in the future, which smashed the perception of everything all the people in the crowd had ever known!

At this current time where the Purple Spirit was almost extinct, the indigo spirit was considered to be the most powerful existence, and just one step below the indigo, was the blue spirit.....

Casting their eyes to see throughout the world, had there ever been a blue spirit as young as this?

Qu Wen Hao clutched at his chest, as he stared at the back of Jun Xie's determined back, his heart filling up with hopeless despair.

The other Clan Chief of the Thousand Beast City suddenly stood forward and against the back of Jun Xie, he shouted: "Jun Xie! With you being so powerful! Why are you unwilling to help the Young Miss! Don't you and the Young Miss know each other? The Young Miss had been captured by Qu Xin Rui and whether she is dead or alive now is not even known. You have two Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts in your hands. Why can't you sacrifice one to save a person's life? If you are willing..... you will forever be the Thousand Beast City's benefactor!"

Jun Wu Xie turned her head back slightly, and she looked coldly at the Clan Chief who spoke.

"Just because you are weak, it makes you right?"

The Clan Chief was immediately stumped.

As things stood, Jun Wu Xie and the Thousand Beast City were initially not linked to each other in any way and the reason she had come here was because of her agreement with Qu Ling Yue to cooperate. Besides that, Jun Wu Xie was not bound by anything to give up anything for the Thousand Beast City at all.

This was obviously a matter that concerned only the people of the Thousand Beast City themselves, but they were asking her to give up her things to resolve it.....

If this was made known to people outside, they would only be despised and laughed at by the world!

She couldn't be bothered to waste her breath with those people anymore and Jun Wu Xie lifted her foot to walk out of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, and throughout her entire life, she would never set foot within this place ever again!

The figures of Jun Xie and Jun Wu Yao disappeared at the main doors of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall. Qu Wen Hao struggled to stand up, refusing the help offered by the Clan Chief.

"Grand Chieftain....." Xiong Ba looked at the haggard looking Qu Wen Hao. In regards to this matter, he had objected to it from the beginning but.....

"Grand Chieftain..... You have really done wrong....." Qing Yu said as he gave an extremely heavy sigh. Although Jun Xie had not exploded in rage this time, but from the look in the youth's eyes, Qing Yu had understood that their relationship as cooperating partners had broken up, the youth they had personally invited here to save the Thousand Beast City from its crisis had been pushed away from them with their own hands.

Qing Yu would never be able to forget, that cold, chilling gaze he had seen from Jun Xie.

Qu Wen Hao's face was deathly white, not saying a single word. He stepped falteringly towards the outside of the doors, his hand gripping the Spirit Taming Bone Flute tightly.

Xiong Ba and the others only felt helplessness in their hearts. They did not know anymore, just who in the world would be able to save them from this muck, after they had broken this last sliver of hope they had, with their very own hands.....

Qu Wen Hao left the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, and walked on his own to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers. That one kick from Jun Xie before he left, had struck him right in the breast, which hurt his internal organs with the impact. He was feeling an agonizing pain as if fire was baking his insides but he could give afford to give the slightest attention to it, but just plodded heavily along with every single step towards the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, as he dragged his heavy hand up, to pound on the tightly locked doors.

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Chapter 1085:- Severing All Ties (3)

The main doors of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers were slowly opened. Shen Chi stood behind the doors and loomed at the flustered and anxious Qu Wen Hao.

Qu Wen Hao did not even give Shen Chi a single glance and just pushed past him, bracing himself to remain upright, as he strode towards the inside of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers.

Qu Xin Rui was lying down sideways upon the long lounge as the favoured men carefully served her.

Qu Wen Hao came rushing up and just as he just stepped onto the top floor, his weakened body made his legs give way and he fell onto the ground in a wretched heap. He struggled to his feet and laboured with every step, shifting himself slowly to come before Qu Xin Rui.

"The matter I asked you to do, has it been done?" Qu Xin Rui's eyebrow arched up as she looked at Qu Wen Hao, her lips curling up into a cruel smile.

Qu Wen Hao's eyes were malevolent as he glared at Qu Xin Rui, looking like he wanted to tear her to shreds, his heart filled with heaven damning hatred.

Qu Xin Rui looked straight into his hate filled eyes and she laughed lightly.

"There's no need for you to glare so fiercely at me. I'm doing all this for the sake of the Thousand Beast City's future. The might of the Fire Country is so much stronger than the Thousand Beast City and if we can ally ourselves with the Fire Country, to the Thousand Beast City, it would naturally bring us more benefits than drawbacks and this was what you as their Grand Chieftain must have longed for as well."

"Where is Ling Yue! ?" Qu Wen Hao asked through gritted teeth as he glared at Qu Xin Rui.

Qu Xin Rui raised her hand and shooed the group of fawning favoured men back as she sat up slowly.

"I've said it before. If you want to see your daughter, then bring Jun Xie's Spirit Beast here in exchange."

Qu Wen Hao suddenly gripped the Spirit Taming Bone Flute that symbolised the pinnacle of authority and power in the Thousand Beast City and threw it at Qu Xin Rui's feet!

Qu Xin Rui's eyebrow lifted up as she looked at Qu Wen Hao.

"I've already used the Spirit Taming Bone Flute to control Jun Xie's Spirit Beast. Where is Ling Yue! !" Qu Wen Hao roared, his body shaking from fear.

Qu Xin Rui gestured with her hand and one of the favoured men kneeling by her foot obediently picked up the Spirit Taming Bone Flute and wiped it clean on his sleeve before carefully presenting it to Qu Xin Rui.

"Oh? Then where is that Spirit Beast now?" Qu Xin Rui asked as she toyed with the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, her eyes narrowed up.

"Jun Xie came back in a rush midway and brought it away. I wasn't a match for Jun Xie and could not stop him. But the Spirit Taming Bone Flute has already gained control of that Spirit Beast's consciousness and once it awakens, it will listen to my commands and it will come back here on its own. Now, you must honour your end of the bargain and return Ling Yue back to me!" Qu Wen Hao shouted with his fists tightly clenched.

"Hahaha." Qu Xin Rui laughed aloud in curious delight. She looked on with pity at the wretched looking Qu Wen Hao, laughing as she shook her head and said: "Why are you being so anxious? No matter what, the Qu Family's blood flows within Ling Yue and how would I, as a member of the Qu's bloodline treat her badly? You just rest assured. when she is here with me, I will naturally look after her properly. When that Spirit Beast comes back to look for you, I will then return Ling Yue back to you."

Qu Wen Hao heart panicked and he did not care about anything else but just charged straight at Qu Xin Rui. Qu Xin Rui's face creased up into a frown and with a palm strike, she sent Qu Wen Hao flying!

Qu Wen Hao crashed onto the floor and a mouthful of blood spewed out. His hair had fallen into a mess and his eyes were red and bloodshot as he glared angrily at Qu Xin Rui.

The pair of eyes were like those of a demon and Qu Xin Rui was feeling rather displeased with the staring as she asked with a frown: "What's your hurry? Or are you worried that in a few months, you will have a few additional grandchildren?" As she spoke, Qu Xin Rui suddenly laughed loudly.

"Don't worry. Those I sent over, are the most good looking men I have carefully picked. Even if she becomes with child, I believe it will be a beautiful baby."

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Chapter 1086:- Severing All Ties (4)

"Argh! ! ! !" Qu Wen Hao knelt on the floor, his hands clutching onto the fox skins in agony, his eyes brimming with tears, his wail deeply heart wrenching to people!

Desolate, rage, despair.....

Qu Xin Rui's laughter, accompanied by Qu Wen Hao's anguished wail, reverberated within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers.

The weaving of the tears and laughter, clash of despair and cruelty, made the made in the entire Heavenly Cloud Chambers, fill with a suffocating oppression.

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Jun Wu Xie left the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall with Jun Wu Yao. They did not immediately leave the Thousand Beast City but had instead settled themselves in an inn within the Thousand Beast City.

Jun Wu Xie put the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit and Lord Meh Meh on the bed. It had been the first time the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit had experienced battle after its powers awoke and although its Guardian Grade Spirit Beast powers had allowed it to save Lord Meh Meh to remain with them, it had nevertheless drained out its strength. It lay on the bed, looking up at Jun Wu Xie with exhausted eyes, allowing Jun Wu Xie to treat its wounds, so obedient that it pained people even more to look at it.

"Are you going to just forget about the matter like this?" Jun Wu Yao asked, his arms crossed before his chest as he stood at the side, watching as Jun Wu Xie tended to the Sacrificial Blood Rabbbit's wounds, the traces of blood falling from the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit's flesh and fur onto the clean bedsheets, scattering red blooms of blood upon it.

The actions by Jun Wu Xie's hands did not stop and not a ripple of emotion showed upon her face as she just used a strangely calm tone of voice to say: "Things I should take, I will not give up. Vengeance that is due, I will neither forget."

The cooperation with Qu Wen Hao had been terminated but that did not mean that she would be giving up on the human skin map in the Thousand Beast City. Without help from the Thousand Beast City, she would just have to use other methods to get what she seeked to have.

"I had thought that you would have annihilated everyone back at the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall." Jun Wu Yao said with an eyebrow raised. Jun Wu Xie's personality was one that hid a trait where she exacted revenge for all grievances suffered and for anyone who showed her kindness, she would return with ten times in reciprocation, but if anyone thought to harm her in the slightest, she would definitely crush their bones and scatter the dust.

But this time, Jun Wu Xie had only just given Qu Wen Hao one kick, and did not take any other actions in revenge. From what Jun Wu Yao could see, that wasn't any kind of revenge to him.

To Jun Wu Yao, even if she didn't beat him into having his soul scattered, he should be at least be killed to end up without a place to bury him. (*This sentence contains chinese proverb translation)

As Jun Wu Xie sewed up the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit's wounds, she said: "Qu Wen Hao is merely a pawn, and even if I want to settle the scores, I will not take it out on a mere pawn. Whoever is responsible for all this, will be the one to bear the consequences."

The reason Qu Wen Hao would suddenly turn to become like this, was all due to Qu Xin Rui's instructions. Although Qu Wen Hao wasn't really seen to be an extraordinarily brilliant or wise Grand Chieftain, he was at least considered to be dutiful and fair. Seek vengeance upon the source and for debts at the head, a single Qu Wen Hao would not be adequate to appease Jun Wu Xie's rage. The one who had harboured designs on Lord Meh Meh was Qu Xin Rui!

"Oh? Then what do you intend to do?" Jun Wu Yao asked as he looked at Jun Wu Xie. Although she was seemingly calm on the surface, but he had already detected her rage from the tone of voice she was speaking with.

What Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit had suffered today had completely infuriated Jun Wu Xie!

Jun Wu Xie gaze turned to the side and looked at the unconscious Lord Meh Meh on the bed. From the moment she returned till now, Lord Meh Meh had been in a state of unconsciousness throughout and when Jun Wu Xie saw the Spirit Taming Bone Flute in Qu Wen Hao's hand, she already knew what they had done to Lord Meh Meh, immediately realizing clearly what Qu Xin Rui seeked with her hidden hand in it.

"When someone so eagerly seeks death, I will naturally grant it to her." Jun Wu Xie said, her eyes narrowing up. Old debts and new scores, Qu Xin Rui, you wait and see!

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Chapter 1087:- Belief of a Spirit Beast (1)

In the next few days after, Jun Wu Xie seemed like she had completely evaporated from within the Thousand Beast City. The men that Qu Xin Rui sent out within the city to seek for any signs of Jun Xie did not come back with any news. Having initially thought that her plan would continue to play out but suddenly finding the most important link broken, it had inevitably made Qu Xin Rui rather anxious.

Not knowing.....

Within an inn in the Thousand Beast City, Jun Wu Xie was seated within a guest room, checking on Lord Meh Meh's condition.

Jun Wu Yao sat by the window, looking outside the window to stare at the bustling crowd on the street, his jet black eyes tinged with a strange look.

A series of knocks sounded on the door and Jun Wu Yao got up, walking over to open the door.

Several guards from the Thousand Beast City stood outside with stern faces.

Jun Wu Yao looked at the guards with an eyebrow slightly raised as a finger resting upon the door wiggled and several black shadows soundlessly slipped inside the foreheads of the guards, quickly vanishing under their skin.

The bodies of the guards suddenly stiffened and their eyes turned dark and lacklustre, but they had all seemingly quickly recovered with a shock as they swung their gazes past Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie within the room, their eyes not pausing in the slightest as they turned, as if they had not noticed the existence of those two people, quickly turning their bodies away to leave.

"There's nobody in this room. Continue searching." The lead guard said carelessly, quickly proceeding to the next room to investigate.

Jun Wu Yao closed the door, already highly familiar with what he just did.

That was already the third batch of guards who had come in search of them in the past few days but all of them had without exception cleanly forgotten what they had seen there. The black shadows that had entered their brains made them disregard Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie's existence and even when Jun Wu Xie was standing before them, the guards had all acted like they had not seen them at all.

From the first day that Jun Wu Xie and walked into this inn, everyone within the inn had received Jun Wu Yao's "brainwashing" and would unconsciously turn a blind eye to them.

"Still no improvement?" Jun Wu Yao asked as he closed the room door, leaning lazily against the door, as he looked at Jun Wu Xie sitting by the bed.

Jun Wu Xie shook her head, her hands resting lightly upon Lord Meh Meh's body.

Lord Meh Meh had been unconscious for many days. Ever since the day it was attacked by the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, it had remained in this deep sleep.

"Xiong Ba once mentioned, that Spirit Beasts who were attacked by the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, would regain their consciousness half a day later and become a puppet of the holder of the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, but....." Jun Wu Xie said, biting on her lip. Lord Meh Meh had not shown any signs of awakening at all and had remained looking like it was asleep, lying peacefully upon the bed. No matter how Jun Wu Xie called out to it, she could not elicit the slightest response from it.

The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit's body was still covered in bandages and in the period that Lord Meh Meh had been unconscious, it had not kicked a fuss nor made a noise, only worriedly leaning itself against Lord Meh Meh as it laid on the bed, using its own body temperature to warm the comatose Lord Meh Meh.

The two dumb beasts who had always been fighting incessantly with each other had actually deemed the other to be a partner they could depend on with their lives.

Jun Wu Yao came to stand beside Jun Wu Xie and reached out a hand to smoothen out the creases between Jun Wu Xie's brows. He carried Jun Wu Xie up in his arms and sat down by the bed himself, putting Jun Wu Xie on his lap before saying in a gentle voice: "It might be true that the Spirit Taming Bone Flute is able to manipulate the consciousness of a Spirit Beast, but a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast's consciousness is much stronger than that of common Spirit Beasts. Moreover, if there is an impregnable belief in its heart, even when it has fallen under the control of the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, it would not submit itself willingly and on its own volition."

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Chapter 1088:- Belief of a Spirit Beast (2)

Jun Wu Yao's gaze fixed upon the tiny body of Lord Meh Meh. Towards Spirit Beasts, he did not hold much interest. Even when Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit were Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts, they had not drawn the slightest interest from him. But from what Ye Mei told him, Jun Wu Yao knew one thing.

When they had been below the Heaven's End Cliff, one such Spirit Beast had at the most critical moment saved Jun Wu Xie's life.

"It is struggling."

"What?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she raised her head slightly.

Jun Wu Yao said with a smile: "It must have known that it's consciousness had been warped but the belief its spirit holds has not been obliterated and its spirit is resisting against the power of the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, unwilling to become a puppet under the control of others. Hence, it had forcibly put itself into a state of unconsciousness, unwilling to awaken, only to become a mindless puppet strung."

The consciousness of a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast is extremely strong and they possess enough awareness to formulate their own thoughts, and are capable of knowing what they really want.

Lord Meh Meh's coma was done on its own volition as it was not willing to regain consciousness and be in a position where it would be forced to betray Jun Wu Xie, betray its own belief, and instead chosen to seal its own consciousness.

Jun Wu Xie's lips stiffened as she stared at Lord Meh Meh.

This was one who in the beginning had secretly doggedly followed behind her tail, a dumb sheep only seeking to satisfy its desire for fresher greens, but at the most critical junctures, it would always show its stubborn streak and steely determination.

It had been like this at the bottom of the Heaven's End Cliff and it was the same case now.

A wincing ache tugged deep in Jun Wu Xie's heart, that sharp pain clearing up her mind of fogginess.

She had not treated Lord Meh Meh that well all this time but the dumb and gluttonous beast had been protecting her through its own ways.

"You will recover from this. I promise." Jun Wu Xie stretched out her hand, and carried Lord Meh Meh into her arms. She had not really given Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit that much care and concern in the past but these two simple minded Spirit Beasts had made her icy chilled heart feel this most pure form of trust and loyalty.

"I am your feedstress. You have got to believe that you have not chosen the wrong person to follow. Leave the rest of this to me..... I will definitely snatch you back from them, so you do not have to force yourself so much." Jun Wu Xie stroked Lord Meh Meh's wool gently as she said in a gentle voice. Having the spirit resist against an invasive power was a highly dangerous condition as if it went on for extended periods, Lord Meh Meh's nerves in its brain might be severely damaged and it might never be able to regain consciousness again.

Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit had their parts well and the rest would be carried on by her.

"I will not let down the trust you two have in me. I am your Mistress, and I will prove this through my own hands." Jun Wu Xie's eyes said as her eyes glinted with determination.

The unconscious Lord Meh Meh seemed to have been able to sense Jun Wu Xie's emotions when its body moved slightly in Jun Wu Xie's arms.

Jun Wu Yao rested his chin on Jun Wu Xie's shoulder. The little one was intending to awaken Lord Meh Meh to not have it continue to struggle, and submit itself to the manipulation of the Spirit Taming Bone Flute.

In just moments, Lord Meh Meh finally opened its eyes. But the pair of big limpid eyes did not show its usual neediness as it immediately jumped out from Jun Wu Xie's arms without a moment's hesitation, and leaped out of the open window at the side!

"Puu!" The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit stared as the figure of Lord Meh Meh grew distant and it was anxious to go after it but found itself held tightly within Jun Wu Xie's arms.

"It will come back. I will personally bring Lord Meh Meh back." Jun Wu Xie crooned soothingly in a soft voice, her lowered eyes brewing with an unbridled glint of massacre.

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Chapter 1089:- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned (1)

Just as Wu Xin Rui was feeling perplexed by Jun Xie's disappearance, Lord Meh Meh suddenly charged into the Heavenly Cloud Chambers!

That tiny little figure was filled with incredible power as it sent the guards standing outside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers into hell immediately, treading over blood as it stepped into the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, while Qu Xin Rui surprised gaze saw it walking over to a corner of the long lounge chair, to plop down in rest, its tiny hooves leaving behind red blossoms of blood upon the snow white fox skins, a bright and garish shade of red.

"This is....." Shen Chi came in after hearing the news, as he stared at Lord Meh Meh whose eyes were closed in rest as it laid upon the floor, a bemused expression showing upon his face.

A trace of a smile had bloomed upon Qu Xin Rui's face as she picked up the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, which had been left on the side of the long lounge chair, and held it in her hand. The moment the Spirit Taming Bone Flute had been picked up, Lord Meh Meh's eyes had opened up slightly a tiny slit, to glance once at Qu Xin Rui, before it shut its eyes again to rest.

"It's Jun Xie's Spirit Beast!" Qu Xin Rui's heart was filled with delight. Lin Que had previously described to her what Jun Xie's Spirit Beast had looked like and from Lord Meh Meh's appearance and its reaction to the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, that should be right!

"Hadn't Jun Xie disappeared for a long time already? Why..... would this Spirit Beast suddenly appear?" Shen Chi asked with a frown forming on his face.

Qu Xin Rui replied nonchalantly as she said: "The Spirit Taming Bone Flute had never failed before. When Qu Wen Hao used the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, Jun Xie had come crashing into the scene. Jun Xie must have known that he would not be able to take back his own Spirit Beast and had immediately taken the Spirit Beast away from here. But a pity it was for nought..... Even if he had escaped to the ends of the Earth, any Spirit Beast that the Spirit Taming Bone Flute had gained control over, would use any means it could to come seek the Spirit Taming Bone Flute. Hence, even if Jun Xie had left the Thousand Beast City, this Spirit Beast will still find its own way back here in the end." The past days of frustration and perplexity evaporated into nothing in just mere moments, as Qu Xin Rui's face shone with a wide gleeful smile.

The past few days where Jun Xie had disappeared must have been the youth's last and final struggles but the Spirit Beast had finally still ended up within her hands.

"Since the Spirit Beast has now come here, that means that your request had been fulfilled. Are you going to honour your end of the agreement, to return Qu Ling Yue to Qu Wen Hao?" Shen Chi asked with an eyebrow raised. In recent days, Qu Wen Hao had been in an extremely wretched state and he would come to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers almost everyday, pleading for Qu Xin Rui to let him see his daughter.

But pitifully, his begging pleas was cruelly rejected every single time and the many days of endless fretting and frantic worry had not allowed Qu Wen Hao to let his injured body find the rest it sorely needed and when he had just barely made it to the doors of the Grand Chieftain's Residence this morning, he had collapsed where he had to be carried back inside by people.

Qu Xin Rui gave a cold laugh and said: "When did I ever make any kind of a deal with Qu Wen Hao? Why do I not remember it?"

Shen Chi was slightly taken aback, and the corners of his lips curled up into a highly sinister and malicious smile.

"You are truly merciless and cruel."

Qu Xin Rui was completely unbothered as she said: "I am not being cruel, but it's just that Qu Wen Hao is just too naive. I had never intended to return Qu Ling Yue to him right from the start. If I let him see the state that showed the kind of utter humiliation that Qu Ling Yue was put through and returned his daughter to him after that, wouldn't he immediately fight me with everything he has?"

"What? Don't tell me you're afraid of him?" Shen Chi said with a laugh.

"What a joke. That I would be afraid of trash like that? The Spirit Taming Bone Flute can only be used by the Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City and this Spirit Beast is controlled by him. Although it will move and advance according to the tune of the Spirit Taming Bone Flute, but if Qu Wen Hao dies, then the control the Spirit Taming Bone Flute holds over the Spirit Beast will disappear as well, and it will no longer be under our control."

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Chapter 1090:- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned (2)

"Oh? Then from what you're saying, you do not really need this Spirit Beast to obey your orders?" Shen Chi asked as he looked at Lord Meh Meh who was lying on the floor with its eyes closed. He had just been thinking that it was rather strange that the Spirit Beast was being a little cold towards Qu Xin Rui.

Now, it seemed that there was an explanation for that.

The reason why Lord Meh Meh would suddenly appear here was only due to the Spirit Taming Bone Flute but the person who was really able to use the Spirit Taming Bone Flute was Qu Wen Hao, and the only person that would be able to make the Spirit Beast adhere to orders was just Qu Wen Hao alone.

But Qu Wen Hao had thrown the Spirit Taming Bone Flute to Qu Xin Rui on the very first day which showed that he was unwilling to do anything further than that.

"Although Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts are rare, but if they would not submit themselves to use as I wish, why should I force the issue? I only wanted the Spirit Beast to use it to coerce Jun Xie to accept my suggestion and as long as it remains here in my hands, Jun Xie will be sure to turn up once again. As long as I am able to make him submit and allow me to mobilize the might of the Fire Country to accomplish my goals, that would be enough." Qu Xin Rui said with a laugh, pretending to have unconsciously knocked the Spirit Taming Bone Flute a few times upon the side of the lounge chair, the crisp knocks sounding clearly within Heavenly Cloud Chambers.

As the sound rang out repetitively , Lord Meh Meh opened its eyes as if it was slightly put off by the sounds.

Qu Xin Rui instead found it rather amusing and repeatedly used that to try to agitate Lord Meh Meh.

Shen Chi observed Qu Xin Rui's wicked sense of humour and said: "I'm afraid you do not seem to mean what you said. With a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast right before your eyes, are you really completely unmoved?"

Qu Xin Rui stopped her hands' actions and turned to look at Shen Chi.

[How could she not be tempted?]

[If not for the fact that the Spirit Taming Bone Flute could only be used by the Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City, she would already have snatched it away. It was because she had no way of making the Spirit Beast obey her orders that she had said those pompous words of indifference.]

"What's most important is the Fire Country and all other things are not as critical." Qu Xin Rui said, her eyes narrowing up. She had suddenly lost the interest in teasing Lord Meh Meh with what Shen Chi had said and she put the Spirit Taming Bone Flute aside. Without the disturbance, Lord Meh Meh was finally able to close its eyes again to rest.

"About this Spirit Beast, Qu Wen Hao would find out about it very soon and he will surely kick up another big fuss about it." Shen Chi reasoned.

Qu Xin Rui replied: "What's there to worry about? You just have to cut off a finger from that slut and send it straight to Qu Wen Hao and tell him to be good and obedient. If he dares to kick up a fuss, then it will not be as simple as giving him a few additional grandkids. I can jolly well make mincemeat out of his daughter and if he really wishes for that to happen, he is welcome to stir things up."

Shen Chi gave a low chuckle. Towards Qu Xin Rui's highly cruel and extreme methods, he was not going to discourage her in any way but was in fact more than happy to agree with it.

"Alright. I'll go do it now." Upon saying that, Shen Chi immediately turned and left.

In the basement level of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, Shen Chi's hands were held behind his back as attendants behind him held up fire torches, to throw light into the dark dungeon cell.

Within a metal cage, faint sounds of metal chains dragging against the floor reached them and under that harsh dragging noise, pitiful wails of utter despair were mixed inside, a wail squeezed right from deep inside the soul, extremely horrifying to hear.

Shen Chi's steps stopped in front of a metal door and the door was slowly opened. The inside of the cell was very dim and the muffled wails came from within the dim darkness. Several men in various states of undress at at the moment that the door was opened, hugged a clump of their clothes and walked out from the cell. They saw Shen Chi and they immediately nodded their heads reverently, their eyes tinged with fearful respect.

Shen Chi cast a glance at them and the sides of his mouth lifted in a cruel smirk.

"The taste of the Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City, should be rather good right?"

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Chapter 1091:- The Despicable Got Their Way (1)

In the Thousand Beast City, two youths clad in dark cloaks infiltrated into the city under the darkness of the night. Their movements were nimble as they avoided detection from the city's guards, silently slipping into the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall.

Standing before the main doors of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, a youth pulled out a crude and simple map from his robes and said to his companion beside him: "This should be the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall right? Little Xie told us previously to look for her here after we come into the city, this couldn't be wrong, could it?"

The dim moonlight shone upon the other youth beside him and the mole of beauty at the corner of the youth's eye was especially eye grabbing.

"It won't."

The youth holding the map immediately stuffed the map into his robes and whispered in a soft voice: "We had really done well on this job and if Xiong Ba doesn't treat me to a good jar, I will not tell him where the people of the Thousand Beast City have been imprisoned."

His companions threw him a glance but did not say anything more.

The two slender figures then disappeared in an instant under the pale moonlight.

Inside the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, Xiong Ba was seated beside the table, as several wine jars lay haphazardly around his feet. His face was all red from drink, but the wine in his cup had not been able to ease his sorrows in the slightest, the deep frown on his face had not relaxed at all.

Qing Yu sat opposite Xiong Ba, his complexion pale, dark rings showing under his eyes.

The stench of wine filled the interior of the room, the oppressive air within making it hard to breathe.

"Sigh..... What is happening here? That the Thousand Beast City..... the Thousand Beast City..... would actually be reduced to such a sorry state. To think that for so many years, we were seen to be so mighty in the eyes of the people throughout the world, but now..... Ha! Betrayal of trust, abandonment of morals, repaying kindness with ingratitude..... Actions of completely despicable minions....." Xiong Ba was drunk enough that his awareness was already slightly fuzzy. He lifted the wine jar in his hand and took a long draw with a bitter laugh, the cold wine spilling over his clothes, but failing to awaken him from his depression.

Qing Yu stared at Xiong Ba with a complicated expression on his face.

[How many days has it been.....]

Ever since Jun Xie left, the entire Fiery Blaze Clan from top to bottom had seemingly fallen into great misfortune. From the disciples all the way up to Xiong Ba, they had all seemingly collapsed and fallen into ruin, unable to pick themselves up. The things that had happened in the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall that day, had been like a pair of blood stained hands, shredding apart the pride and fierce loyalty of the Fiery Blaze Clan, throwing them all into the deep abyss of having betrayed and abandoned an ally.

"Qing Yu..... How many years have I been the Clan Chief of the Fiery Blaze Clan?" Xiong Ba asked, his head lowered, and he asked in a fuzzy voice as his forehead rested upon the edge of the wine jar.

"I can't remember clearly." Qing Yu replied.

"Ha..... I can't remember either. All I remember is that our Old Chief, when he was dragged before the Grand Chieftain's Residence by Qu Xin Rui, just before he was executed, he said..... Rather be broken than bent..... Our Old Chief had such strong backbone, and I am just trash instead. Now that the Thousand Beast City had fallen into such a state and I am still helpless to do anything about it. I can't help the people, can't help the Grand Chieftain, can't save the Young Miss..... I am now so useless that I had not even been able to protect a single Spirit Beast! HAHAHA! WHAT A CLAN CHIEF! WHAT BULLSHIT! I AM JUST A SPINELESS PIECE OF TRASH! HAHAHA!..... AN INGRATE WHO"S JUST A SELF SERVING USELESS TRASH! COMPARED TO LIN QUE, HOW DIFFERENT AM I TO HIM! ?" Xiong ba suddenly sat up straight backed, his laughter so filled with despair and hopelessness.

"We were the ones who invited Jun Xie to come. We were the ones who asked him to lend a hand against the predicament the Thousand Beast City was facing. And now? In order to save our own people, we had actually taken his Spirit Beast and sent it into the hands of that old hag! Qing Yu! In my chest..... I feel so infuriated..... it's choking me..... choking me so bad....." Xiong Ba lifted his head to look up, to stare up at the roof bathed in the candlelight, and two trails of hot tears, flowed down from the corners of his eyes.

Qing Yu clenched his jaw tight, not daring to say a word, but just downed the wine in his cup silently, seeking to use the alcohol to dispel the guilt and shame that wrenched at his heart.

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Chapter 1092:- The Despicable Got Their Way (2)

"If that old hag had not committed a deed so vile and demented..... I will not have let the Grand Chieftain do this..... I really won't....." Xiong Ba suddenly started weeping, the deep struggle within his heart and the guilt he felt towards Jun Xie that ate at him, made this almost eight foot towering giant crumble and falter.

"Qing Yu, I really do not know what I should do..... I've watched the Young Miss grow up to become such a big girl..... the Grand Chieftain..... the Grand Chieftain was forced to witness her being brutally humiliated by those beasts..... I really..... really cannot bear it....."

No one knew what had really happened in Jun Xie's room that day.

Although Qu Wen Hao was the Grand Chieftain that Xiong Ba had sworn undying allegiance to, but in the face of that loyalty, Xiong Ba's unbending character was such that he would not be able to submit himself to anyone.

And when Qu Wen Hao had suddenly told them with his face in a deathly pallor, all that he had experienced, Xiong Ba's heart was not able to remain as steadfastly resolute.

Although Qu Wen Hao's character wasn't considered to be stalwart and unwavering, but he still held his own principles firmly. Even when his wife had been captured, and he had to submit himself under others, he still did everything he could to protect the people in the city. But the extent of Qu Xin Rui's viciousness had exceeded anything all of them had expected.

In this world, where would you find a Father who could bear to tolerate witnessing his own daughter being humiliated like that.....

Xiong Ba did not dare imagine what Qu Wen Hao must have been forced to go through, just how horrifying and traumatic it could be to cause such a steadfast man to bend his back and submit, surrendering up his conscience.

Qing Yu downed the wine one cup after another in quick succession, not saying even one word. The biting wine burned his throat as it went down, bringing about a throbbing pain, not enjoying the wine one bit, but more like a form of punishment.

Self inflicted punishment.

"Oh? Enjoying yourselves on such a great night, it just so happens that I am feeling really thirsty!" The clear voice of a youth rang out candidly within the room suddenly.

Xiong Ba and Qing Yu turned their heads in confusion to look, and saw Qiao Chu leaping into the room through the window, with Hua Yao's face appearing right behind him.

"Hurry up, I am dying of thirst here." Qiao Chu said with a guffaw as he walked over, while utter shock showed upon the faces of Xiong Ba and Qing Yu. They watched as Qiao Chu nonchalantly picked up a jar of wine from the side, to tear the seal open and tilting it back with his head to pour its contents into his mouth.

Hua Yao walked over in an unhurried manner as his gaze swept over the faces of Xiong Ba and Qing Yu, but did not find anything suspicious.

"That really hit the spot!" Qiao Chu exclaimed with a laugh as he wiped his mouth, looking at Xiong Ba and Qing Yu.

"You don't need to be so alarmed. We were afraid that the people of the city would discover us and that was why we sneaked ourselves in here. We have really tired ourselves out really badly throughout this period. In order to tail those people, we have not been able to get any shuteye at all for the past few days, so you wouldn't mind it if we grab a couple of sips of your wine, would you?" Qiao Chu teased, winking his eyes meaningfully at the completely stunned Xiong Ba.

Xiong Ba's mouth gaped open, and did not know what to say at that moment.

Jun Xie had stationed Qiao Chu and her other companions outside the city previously in order to find out the location where Qu Xin Rui had imprisoned the people of the Thousand Beast City, and with Qiao Chu appearing here now, that would mean that they have already determined the exact location!

"Your Fiery Blaze Clan Hall isn't really that large a place, but why is it that after looking an entire round through the place, I still do not see Little Xie? Where have you guys hidden him? Have someone bring him here quickly as we have traveled both day and night just to bring the news here." Qiao Chu said as he moistened his parched throat with another swig of the jar, a faint red flush creeping up onto his face, his eyes shining with anxiety and joyous delight.

The words Little Xie struck at Xiong Ba's mind like a mighty bolt and the tipsiness that filled him immediately dissipated without a trace at that instant, all colour quickly draining out from his face completely!

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Chapter 1093:- The Despicable Got Their Way (3)

Xiong Ba's strange reaction was noticed by Hua Yao and Qiao Chu and Qiao Chu slowly retracted the wide smile on his face, as he asked cautiously.

"What's wrong..... Don't tell me something has happened?"

Xiong Ba clenched his fists up tight unable to look at Qiao Chu straight in his eye.

Qing Yu's lips trembled slightly and opened his mouth slightly. From Qiao Chu's words earlier, it had held within them a message in no uncertain terms.

They had already found the place their people had been imprisoned.

Although Qiao Chu and Hua Yao were still highly energetic, but judging from their dust filled clothes and the mess their hair was in, it was not hard to see that they had not gotten any rest through the period. As they had just said, in order to track down the whereabouts of the imprisoned people of the Thousand Beast City, they really had not even been able to shut their eyes at all for the past few days and nights but they had still rushed all the way here to the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall in the first instance just to deliver the news into their hands.....

Xiong Ba and Qing Yu could not even meet the eyes of Qiao Chu and Hua Yao as the clear eyes of the two youths would just reflect the deep shame the two men were feeling at that moment.

"Can't you just say something? What exactly happened?" Qiao Chu asked in confusion as he looked at Xiong Ba and Qing Yu who were avoiding his gaze and a sense of unease rose within his heart, the hand holding the wine jar slowly lowered.

"Young Master Qiao..... We..... We have let all of you down....." Qing Yu squeezed out those few words in a trembling voice, sounding like every single word took all his courage to say.

The confusion in Qiao Chu's eyes deepened and he was about to ask more about it when Hua Yao at his side suddenly raised a hand and stopped him from asking.

"Little Xie is not at the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall?" Hua Yao asked, his eyes narrowing up. Xiong Ba and Qing Yu were reacting strangely and that had given rise to an uneasy guess to creep into his mind.

Qing Yu nodded his head solemnly.

"Where is Little Xie now?" Hua Yao asked in a chilling tone.

"We..... We..... don't know....."

"Why did he leave?" Hua Yao's voice was turning icy.

Qing Yu fell silent and hung his head, his hand holding the wine cup tightening its grip, and a clear crack sounded, a line suddenly appearing upon the wine cup in his hand.....

"Brother Hua....." Qiao Chu was feeling rather nervous as he stared at the side of Hua Yao's face. The two of them have been close for many years and he could see the rage currently brewing deep within Hua Yao's eyes.

Qing Yue clenched his jaw tight and did not know what to say. While Xiong Ba, after a momentary struggle within his heart, finally spoke: "We've let down Young Master Jun. The Thousand Beast City owes him just too much..... Qu XIn Rui abducted our Young Miss and forced the Grand Chieftain to use the Spirit Taming Bone Flute to snatch Young Master Jun's Spirit Beast away from him....."

*(A form of swearing) "Your uncle!" With a loud crash, Qiao Chu smashed the wine jar in his hand by Xiong Ba's feet and his attractive countenance immediately twisted up with a surge of unbridled rage!

The clear and crystalline wine exploded with the smashing of the wine jar, splashing all over Xiong Ba, but he did not react in the slightest.

"It was you guys who had so persistently begged Little Xie to help you! In the end, without batting an eyelid, you have sold us out! What does this thing that happened in the Thousand Beast City have anything to do with all of us! ? Just because all of you are unable to save the person, what right do you have to make Little Xie sacrifice his own Spirit Beast! ! !" Qiao Chu shot forward to come before Xiong Ba and picked up the towering Xiong Ba in his hand, his face contorted with rage!

"This is what you mean by cooperation? Selling out your ally without the slightest hesitation? If we had known that the Thousand Beast City was like this, we shouldn't have agreed to come help you right from the beginning!"

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Chapter 1094:- The Despicable Got Their Way (4)

Qiao Chu was exploding with rage. He never would have dreamed, that when they came here into the Thousand Beast City, what greeted them would be a result like this!

"All this time we have been risking our lives out there for your people and you have proven yourselves to be so vicious! Because of your very own Young Miss and all of you forced Little Xie to give up his Spirit Beast? When we were spending sleepless night out there trying to resolve the Thousand Beast City's crisis, what were all of you doing? This is the goddamned reward you are giving back to us! ?" Qiao Chu slammed his fist onto Xiong Ba's face, a mighty big one, that made Xiong Ba immediately see stars!

Although it was true they needed the human skin map, but if Xiong Ba and his group had not invited them here, they would still seek other avenues to get what they wanted in their hands and Xiong Ba wasn't the only route they could take. They had chosen to trust Xiong Ba, but what had they gotten in return?

When they had been outside toiling for the sake of the Thousand Beast City, these people from the Thousand Beast City had instead pushed Jun Wu Xie right into the fire!

What kind of an ally was that! ?

Qiao Chu's heart was filled with regret. They shouldn't have agreed to collaborate with the Thousand Beast City right from the start. With just Jun Wu Xie's ploys, to get the human skin map, they wouldn't have needed any outside help. They had done all this just because Xiong Ba and Qu Ling Yue had pleaded with them.

Qiao Chu's fist rained down upon Xiong Ba's face but it did not reduce any of the rage he had pent up inside.

That feeling of being betrayed was completely unacceptable.

Xiong Ba did not resist in the slightest, but allowed Qiao Chu to give vent, and even when he was coughing out blood, he did not utter a single sound of complaint.

Hua Yao suddenly pulled back on Qiao Chu next punch he was about to deliver and Qiao Chu's fist froze in mid air, his entire body fully tensed up from the rage within.

"Enough." Hua Yao said.

"Brother Hua, let go of me! I want to kill this treacherous betraying scoundrel!" Qiao Chu said through tightly clenched teeth.

"I said it's enough." Hua Yao said coldly. "Finding Little Xie should be the key."

All the strength seeped out of Qiao Chu at that moment, as he tossed Xiong Ba to the side.

Hua Yao chilling gaze fell upon the wretched looking Xiong Ba, and there wasn't the slightest trace of sympathy in those eyes.

"From now onwards, whether the Thousand Beast City lives or dies, it does not concern us. Our cooperation is henceforth terminated." Hua Yao said icily, immediately turning to walk out the doors.

Qiao Chu glared at Xiong Ba and Qing Yu and quickly followed.

Xiong Ba remained lying weakly upon the ground, the pain all over his body seemingly reminding him of his incompetence and shame.

Hua Yao and Qiao Chu came out of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, and they stood on the main street under the night sky. The street was cold and cheerless, the pale moonlight shone upon it, showing its emptiness.

"Brother Hua, where..... could Little Xie have gone?" Qiao Chu was seemingly a little perplexed.

"She would still be within city." Hua Yao said with absolute certainty.

The night air was cool, but Qiao Chu and Hua Yao could not calm their hearts. They had rushed all the way here but had been met with such a result, which wouldn't be acceptable in anyone's mind.

Suddenly, a black shadow appeared right before the two youths. When the two torn and perplexed youths saw the face of the person, their eyes immediately lit up in joy.

"Ye Sha!" Qiao Chu stared in surprise at Ye Sha who had appeared so suddenly in front of him.

Ye Sha nodded slightly.

"Did Little Xie ask you to come look for us? Where is she now?" Qiao Chu asked excitedly, as under the heavens, the only person besides Jun Wu Yao who was able to give orders to Ye Sha, would only be Jun Wu Xie!

Ye Sha answered: "The Young Miss had ordered for me to wait for the two of you here. I will now bring you to go see her."

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Chapter 1095:- The Despicable Got Their Way (5)

Under Ye Sha guidance, Qiao Chu and Hua Yao came to the inn that Jun Wu Xie was staying at.

When Qiao Chu pushed the door open to enter, his face was still slightly tinged with resentment against the Thousand Beast City's betrayal. And as the door opened and he saw the person inside the room, he was completely stunned.

Jun Wu Yao sat gracefully upon a chair by the window, the moonlight spilling over his body that streamed in through the window. He was supporting his chin in one hand as he watched Jun Wu Xie at the side, a faint smile playing across his lips, a sight so beautiful it looked as if it was from a painting.

The moment Qiao Chu saw Jun Wu Yao, his mind went completely blank.

"Big..... Big Brother Wu Yao....."

Jun Wu Yao lifted his head slightly to look at Qiao Chu and Hua Yao at the door and smiled at them.

"You're back already." Qiao Chu said, scratching at his head. He had not thought that he would see Jun Wu Yao here. He had been worried that Jun Wu Xie would be suffering after the matter with the Thousand Beast City, but at the moment he saw Jun Wu Yao, he immediately felt relieved.

With Jun Wu Yao here, he will not allow Jun Wu Xie to suffer any injustice.

"That's right." Jun Wu Yao said with a smile.

Hua Yao glanced at Qiao Chu who was standing at the door gaping stupidly and he raised a foot to kick Qiao Chu inside.

Almost having fallen onto the ground, Qiao Chu turned his head towards Hua Yao with an aggrieved look but Hua Yao was too stingy to even spare him a glance out of the corner of his eyes and had turned to Jun Wu Xie instead.

"What actually happened?" Hua Yao asked, his brows creasing up together.

Jun Wu Xie looked up and asked nonchalantly: "You guys went to the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall?"

"Yes." Hua Yao nodded.

"The you should already know what has happened." Jun Wu Xie had not gone to the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall again since that day but she still remembered what she said to Qiao Chu and the others previously. Once Qiao Chu and the others found out the exact location that those people have been imprisoned, they were to immediately make their way to the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall to tell her the news. Hence Jun Wu Xie had asked Ye Sha to keep a lookout at the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall and once he saw Qiao Chu and Hua Yao coming out from the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, he had led them straight here.

The expression on Qiao Chu's face when he had pushed to door in to enter had already given Jun Wu Xie enough hints to the information.

To have been able to make Qiao Chu so resentful, Xiong Ba and his people must have already revealed to him all that had happened previously.

"The Thousand Beast City are an absolute disgrace! If we had known earlier, we shouldn't have agreed to their request in the first place and leave them to meet their own demise." When Qiao Chu recalled what he had heard earlier, the ball of fiery rage within immediately reignited to burn strongly.

Jun Wu Xie had never been one who liked to meddle into the affairs of others. Although her personality was rather cold, but she would never initiate any provocation against others. As long as people do not poke at her inverted scale, she seldom struck viciously. This matter regarding the Thousand Beast City, had been initiated by Xiong Ba and the others themselves, and now that they were bitten by their betrayal, not even a saint could be expected to tolerate such two faced treachery!

Jun Wu Xie looked calmly at the seething Qiao Chu, whose eyes had turned calm.

Hua Yao gaze swept across the room and he was silent a moment before he asked: "Where is Lord Meh Meh?"

Hua Yao's words caused Qiao Chu to be taken aback in surprise. When they were at the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, Xiong Ba had said that Qu Xin Rui had her eye on Jun Wu Xie's Spirit Beast but they had thought that with Jun Wu Xie's resourcefulness, she would never let that happen. But now that they did not see any signs of Lord Meh Meh within the room, Qiao Chu's heart dropped with a thud.

Jun Wu Xie raised her head to look at the bright moon outside the window, her voice calm as she said: "In Qu Xin Rui's hands."

Qiao Chu's eyes widened in shock, his face filled with incredulity, unable to believe his own ears.

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Chapter 1096:- The Show is About to Start (1)

Jun Wu Xie was calm as she looked at Qiao Chu's shocked expression.

"Damn it..... We will now just go and torment that old witch to death!" Qiao Chu said, rubbing his fists, all ready to stir up a big storm. If they had known that Jun Wu Xie would be put through all these in the Thousand Beast City, they wouldn't have let Jun Wu Xie come here alone even if you beat them to death.

"No rush." Jun Wu Xie said, shaking her head. She turned to Hua Yao at the side and said: "Have you guys managed to find out where those people have been imprisoned?"

Hua Yao nodded. "The place they have been imprisoned is not too far away. It is an underground dungeon and the people guarding the place are not exceptionally powerful. But as most of the prisoners are weak and helpless ladies, so they were not able to resist against the guards much."

The guards that Qu Xin Rui sent there were not too wary and alert, and it was thought that it might have been because this had gone on for many a number of years and they have never encountered anyone who dared to resist them, which made them complacent and relaxed their guard.

Jun Wu Xie nodded.

Qiao Chu's eyes widened. "That scoundrel of a Grand Chieftain had already done something so treacherous and you are still thinking of helping him to save his people? Have you gone mad?"

Qiao Chu was of the thinking that after Qu Wen Hao had committed such a blunder, the fact that Jun Wu Xie had not killed him was already being very merciful, and continuing to help him save those abducted ladies who were from the Thousand Beast City was something completely unthinkable.

"I'm doing this not for the sake of the Thousand Beast City." Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly. "I would naturally have my own reasons for doing this."

The cooperation with the Thousand Beast City had already been terminated and all that she was doing now was only for the sake of getting the map as soon as possible.

"The plan has already come to this stage. Regardless of what Qu Wen Hao and his people wants to do, I will not discontinue with my plan. Since we are unable to continue with the cooperation, then I will just let them move according to my plan." Jun Wu Xie said, her eyes narrowing up.

Qiao Chu was rather astounded and he asked: "What do you intend to do?"

Jun Wu Xie answered: "Get the map, take back Lord Meh Meh, and send Qu Xin Rui..... on her way to Hell."

"Where are Fei Yan and the others now?" Jun Wu Xie then asked.

"Keeping watch at the place, in case anything unexpected happens." Hua Yao said.

"Tell them to act as soon as possible. I want to push Qu Xin Rui over into the abyss little by little." Jun Wu Xie said with a chilling smile. She had initially only seeked to get the map. But as Qu Xin Rui had chosen to take Lord Meh Meh, she wasn't about to be nice about it.

"Alright!"

After some discussion, Jun Wu Xie asked Hua Yao and Qiao Chu to first go get some rest but because of what happened within the Thousand Beast City, the two of them refused to rest and took advantage of the cover of night to slip out of the city, to bring the news to their other companions.

Watching the night sky, Jun Wu Xie stared at the darkness that enveloped the Thousand Beast City, her eyes chilled with an icy glint.

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At the beginning of the month, a new batch of hostages from the Thousand Beast City was sent back into the city to be reunited with their family. Bright and early, the people were already gathered at the gates of the Thousand Beast City, watching in anticipation to see whether their family members were among those who returned this time.

In the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, Qu Xin Rui was highly agitated as she sat in front of her dressing table. The transformation had spread to her entire right arm and the originally smooth and fair skin had now been replaced with one that was old, aged and wrinkled. The affliction had only been about the size of a palm previously and it had now spread throughout her entire arm, slowly going towards her shoulder.

"What is really happening? Shen Chi! Haven't you already completed the sacrifice? Why do I not feel anything at all?" Qu Xin Rui asked in exasperation as she threw the bronze mirror onto the floor.

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Chapter 1097:- The Show is About to Start (2)

Seeing the traces left from the passage of time showing up and becoming more and more obvious upon her skin, Qu Xin Rui was getting more and more agitated. The predicament one was cornered into by the changes that came with time's passing, was one thing she did not want to experience again.

Shen Chi's brows creased together slightly and said: "I have completed the offering and its power has been fully restored. Why are you still afflicted with this condition?"

According to reason, Qu Xin Rui should now be able to retain her youthful looks that would not fade. But for some unknown reason, ever since the birthday banquet, the speed of her body's aging had suddenly been highly accelerated, making it seem as if that the young and youthful skin on her body was slowly being peeled off bit by bit.

"You are sure that having that slut Qu Ling Yue locked up within the dungeon will not affect me in any way?" Qu Xin Rui asked.

Shen Chi shook his head.

"The underground dungeon and the Heavenly Cloud Chambers are not linked directly, so that should not affect you at all."

Qu Xin Rui gritted her teeth and said: "Once the matter with the Fire Country is confirmed, I will be making a trip back, to ask the Elder to help me see what is happening. I have not gone back for many years and could it be that the effects from that thing is losing its efficacy on me....."

Shen Chi said: "Maybe, but it has already been quite a few days and Jun Xie still has not appeared. Are you really confident that he will accept your terms for the sake of one Spirit Beast?" Upon saying that, Shen Chi's gaze fell upon the figure of Lord Meh Meh at the side.

Ever since that day when Lord Meh Meh had come to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, it had just quietly laid at that spot. Not eating nor drinking, and not making a single sound. If not for the aura still emanating from the beast, one would really think that it had fallen into a deep sleep.

Qu Xin Rui had firmly believed that with Lord Meh Meh in their hands, they would be able to force Jun Xie to submit. But they have waited a few days and they had still not seen any sign of Jun Xie, which inadvertently caused her to develop a sense of unease.

"Wait a while more..... If he still doesn't appear, I will come up with another plan."

Shen Chi shrugged and did not say anything more.

Very soon, a guard of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers came running over.

Qu Xin Rui was already in a foul mood and when she saw the flustered guard, she asked with a frown on her face: "Why are you being so flustered? Don't tell me you saw a ghost."

The guard started to stammer: "Reporting to Great Aunt. Today..... The batch of people have been sent back....."

Qu Xin Rui's lips stiffened and she said impatiently: "So what if they have been sent back. Let those fools be happy for a few days and when the end of the month comes, just send them out again. What is there to be so flustered about?"

The monthly exchange of hostages had never been a thing she cared about.

But the guard continued to stammer: "But..... but....."

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Inside the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall, Xiong Ba was suffering from a splitting headache as he sat in his room. He had consecutively drunk himself into unconsciousness the past few days and he was finding himself unable to differentiate between reality and his dreams. Everything before his eyes seemed to be moving which brought about bouts of nausea.

The disciple who came in with hangover tea just set it down and did not dare say anything but just threw Xiong Ba a worried glance before retreating out from the room.

These days, the atmosphere within the entire Fiery Blaze Clan Hall had become extremely strange and although no one dared to bring up the incident that happened on that day, that incident had been burned and branded into their hearts, an indelible memory. Although the disciples did not know everything about the matter, but from the conversation between Jun Xie and Qu Wen Hao that day, they were able to roughly feel something from it.

They, the Thousand Beast City, must have done something that let Young Master Jun down greatly.....

"Clan Chief!" Qing Yu was panicky and highly flustered as he came rushing into Xiong Ba's room.

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Chapter 1098:- The Show is About to Start (3)

Xiong Ba held his head in agony as he looked at Qing Yu. "What's wrong?"

"Go quickly to the city's gates and see!" Qing Yu said as he stepped forward to pull Xiong Ba up. Xiong Ba was still feeling rather woozy and when Qing Yu dragged him to his feet, his steps were rather unsteady.

At the Thousand Beast City's gates, the mass of people congregated there had fully filled several of the main streets. Qing Yu dragged Xiong Ba along as they squeezed past the crowd and when they reached the front of crowd of people, what he saw before him made his eyes widen up in shock!

Outside the city's gates, thousands of womenfolk were gathered there. Their eyes brimming with tears, their figures thinned and frail looking, as they held their hands together nervously before their chests.

The Thousand Beast City had more than a thousand of their people in total abducted by Qu Xin Rui, and they were standing right before their eyes!

Xiong Ba's mind exploded with that realisation!

All those people who had been captured by Qu Xin Rui had actually returned!

That was just something outright impossible!

Those women who have been separated for so long with their families were all crying at the same time, shrouding the Thousand Beast City in a sorrow that made people's hearts wince to hear.

Many people have upon hearing the news rushed to the scene and saw their wives and mothers. They could not be bothered with anything else and just rushed forward to wrap their loved ones into their arms.

The Thousand Beast City's gate broke out in a clamour of wails and sobs, the people weeping in tight embrace not even able to ponder upon what was really happening.

Qu Xin Rui would bring a batch of people back every month but the numbers were always few. But this time, all the people she had abducted have been released and that had been highly shocking to everyone!

Xiong Ba stared with his eyes widened, and looking at the womenfolk who have returned, his mind was a complete blank.

Qu Xin Rui would never be so kind, to release everybody all at once.

And behind all the highly emotional women, at the foot of the city wall, Xiong Ba suddenly spotted a familiar figure. He recognized it to be Qiao Chu who had just come rushing back to the Thousand Beast City several days ago!

"It's Jun Xie..... Jun Xie rescued all of them....." Like a bolt of lightning had struck him, Xiong Ba fell back in a stagger as Qing Yu rushed to hold him up, his eyes filled with the same shame and guilt.

The return of all their womenfolk, was definitely not due to Qu Xin Rui being merciful. When Qiao Chu and Hua Yao had come to them a few days ago, telling them that they had found the location where their people have been imprisoned, Xiong Ba and Qing Yu had wanted so much to ask them for the exact location, but were too ashamed to open their mouths then. They had then thought that Jun Xie had totally abandoned them after that and would not help them any further.

But today, they were looking at all these people returned to them.

Xiong Ba and Qing Yu immediately felt their faces begin to burn with a stinging pain!

Jun Xie had still saved all these people held hostage. Even after they had betrayed the youth, he had not let the rage in his heart implicate these innocent hostages.

The return of the hostages had inadvertently delivered one tight slap onto Xiong Ba and his people. The deep shame and the prick to their conscience made them suddenly find it hard to breathe.

Compared to Jun Xie, they were all just a bunch of ungrateful beasts!

Standing within the joyous and highly emotional atmosphere surrounding them, Xiong Ba and Qing Yu hung their heads in shame. They had noticed, among the crowd, a flustered Qu Wen Hao was staring blankly at everything before him.....

Qu Wen Hao's gaze was lifeless, his originally dashing looks had seemingly aged more than ten years over the past few days. His shoulders were trembling slightly, like he was trying to hold back the emotions he held suppressed within.

Other people in the Thousand Beast City were not aware of the reason why their family members were able to return safely.

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Chapter 1099:- Face Slap - Eleventh Form (1)

But for Xiong Ba, Qing Yu and Qu Wen Hao, it couldn't have been more clear. The return of their people, was all due to the credit of the youth they had all betrayed.

Endless guilt and shame coupled with self admonishment wrecked at their hearts, like an enormous rock that crushed upon them, making it hard for them to breathe.

Qu Wen Hao was in a daze, the past few days a fuzzy memory to him like he had been living in a dream. He walked staggeringly, searching anxiously among the women who had returned, yearning to see that one familiar figure that he had missed and had always been on his mind for so many years.

But as his gaze swept over the crowd of people again and again, he still did not see his wife.....

"Did anyone..... anyone see my wife....." Terror and unease swam within Qu Wen Hao's heart, as he stood helplessly among the crowd swimming around him, his voice all choked up.

The women who just returned wiped the tears from their faces and they turned to look sorrowfully at Qu Wen Hao.

Their gazes made the sense of unease within Qu Wen Hao grew stronger and his highly nervous hands began to shake.

[No, it can't.....]

[His wife will be fine. Those people who have returned every month had all said she was still fine..... Nothing could have happened.....]

"Madam she....." The rescued women bit on their lip and lowered their heads. They had all been captured by Qu Xin Rui at the same time and imprisoned together at the same place. What really happened then, they all knew clearly.

"Where is she? Why did she not come back?" Qu Wen Hao was acting like he had lost his mind as he clutched at a woman's shoulders, asking anxiously for information whether his wife was still safe and sound.

The woman could not bear to look at him and turned her head away, avoiding Qu Wen Hao's eyes.

None of them wanted to tell Qu Wen Hao what really happened to Madam and they were all avoiding his eyes.

"What are all of you doing here! Who allowed you to come back!" Suddenly, a shrill voice rang out from behind the crowd!

That ear piercing voice tore through all the sounds of weeping and everyone turned their heads at the same time.

Qu Xin Rui had brought Shen Chi and his men and they were now standing at the back of the crowd!

Where she stood, everyone stepped back in fear and parted to open up a path before her.

Qu Xin Rui clenched her jaw as she stared at the chaos before her. She could not believe what her own eyes were seeing. All the sluts she had imprisoned in the dungeon had all been released to return here!

When she had received the news from the guard, Qu Xin Rui had not believed that it was true. But when she saw all of this before her eyes, she finally realised..... something had gone wrong!

These people had been imprisoned in a place out of the Thousand Beast City, why had they all suddenly appeared here? Qu Xin Rui did not see the guards she had stationed to take charge of watching these people among the crowd and a shadow of unease began to grow within her heart.

Qu Xin Rui's appearance had forced all the people who had been immersed in the joy of their sudden reunion to immediately wake up. All the women who had finally been able to reunite with their family after so long hid in terror behind their family members, their pale hands gripping tightly the hands of their family, not daring to let go for a single moment. Their faces were filled with fear towards Qu Xin Rui, staring at Qu Xin Rui as if they were looking at the devil. The family members standing at their sides were their very last hope to save them and they did not dare to let go of it a single instant.

"Damn it! Bring all these people back now! Just who was it that dared to do something like this? Who allowed all of you to come back here? All the rest of you leave immediately! Get the hell out of here obediently or I am sure all of you know what the consequences will be!" Qu Xin Rui screamed in rage.

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Chapter 1100:- Face Slap - Eleventh Form (2)

With Qu Xin Rui roaring scream, the women were overtaken with fear and terror. They were shaking uncontrollably as they subconsciously pressed themselves against their family members.

The citizens at the city's gate moved to shield the womenfolk behind them, an obvious sign that they were not going to hand their women over again.

Qu Xin Rui stared at the stance the citizens were taking and her face grew dark and ominous. She swung her eyes over to the haggard looking Qu Wen Hao and shouted at him coldly: "Qu Wen Hao! Aren't you going to gather up the prisoners! ? Don't you want to see your daughter and wife anymore! ?"

Qu Wen Hao's mind was suddenly shaken as he looked up in realization. He walked to go in front of Qu Xin Rui looking highly panicked and flustered and asked: "Where is my wife..... Where is she..... Why do I not see her..... Everyone else came back, why isn't she here....."

Qu Xin Rui sneered coldly and said: "I would naturally take extra good care of the Thousand Beast City's Madam and if you still want to see your wife, then get the guards to capture all the women!" With the bargaining she held in her hand, Qu Xin Rui wasn't about to give it up. Before she gains control of the Fire Country through Jun Xie, the people of the Thousand Beast City must remain within her control.

Qu Wen Hao turned his head around looking dazed as he looked at the citizens of the Thousand Beast City. On those faces, he saw the grief and struggle within the people themselves. He saw the backbone that the people of the Thousand Beast City had lost slowly being recovered. Those people who had been deeply fearful of Qu Xin Rui no longer acted as cowardly as they did before. Their eyes filled with steely determination as they pushed their womenfolk behind them, their chests puffed up, showing their defiance.

Qu Wen Hao's gaze swung from the faces of the people onto the terrified women behind them. Those women were also the citizens of the Thousand Beast City but they had been captured by Qu Xin Rui many years ago, to be imprisoned within a dungeon where they did not see the light of day. Having not been exposed to the sun for long periods, their skin had taken on an extraordinary pale sheen. Their eyes were wide with horror as they stared unblinkingly at Qu Wen Hao, their Grand Chieftain, as their eyes pleaded soundlessly.

Qu Wen Hao felt as if something had stuck in his throat as he looked at the countless pairs of eyes filled with despair, and he found that he could not make himself give the order.

"Qu Wen Hao! Do you really want your family broken apart! ?" Qu Xin Rui saw that Qu Wen Hao was still not moving after so long and she screamed out impatiently.

Qu Wen Hao's entire body was shaken awake once more as unbearable images flashed through his mind, surging with a ferocity that was like a needle, that was stabbed into his consciousness.

"Grand Chieftain..... She is lying..... She is lying! The Madam is long gone....." One of the women suddenly screamed out from among the crowd. The voice tore through the air and reached Qu Wen Hao's ears, which hit him so hard he staggered back several steps, as the blood completely drained out from his face!

"What nonsense are you spouting! Guards! Have that slut executed right now!" Qu Xin Rui's eyes suddenly flashed with nervousness, and she screamed out in exasperation. Shen Chi who was standing right behind her immediately stepped forward, wanting to silence the woman who had spoken up.

But Qu Wen Hao suddenly stood before Shen Chi, blocking his way forward. He lifted his head and looked at Qu Xin Rui, his eyes wide with rage.

"WHERE IS MY WIFE!"

Qu Xin Rui was startled, and she fought to suppress the frantic panic that threatened to rise in her heart as she said in mock displeasure: "Qu Wen Hao! Who do you think you are talking to! ?"

"WHERE IS MY WIFE!" Qu Wen Hao roared, his eyes red and bloodshot.

Qu Xin Rui cursed under her breath and said: "Your wife is still alive and I have her imprisoned separately. Do not listen to the nonsense that that slut is spouting!"

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